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1. According to Carl Sagan, what prompts children to ask seemingly unanswerable questions?

Children's curiosity prompts them to ask seemingly unanswerable questions.

2. What do religious explanations to fundamental questions of the universe reveal?

Religious explanations reveal the limits of human understanding.

3. Why do physicists of Stephen Hawking's caliber not make assumptions about the nature of the universe?

Physicists of Stephen Hawking's caliber do not make assumptions about the nature of the universe because the universe has been discovered to be too complex.

4. Scientists start with observations and mathematics to answer the fundamental questions and then do what?

Scientists propose explanations in hope of landing on a specific explanation that always makes sense and works mathematically.

5. Why might our present day ways of thinking about the universe seem ridiculous in the future?

Just as older views seem ridiculous today, someday our views of the universe might seem ridiculous as physicists learn more about how the universe works.

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